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brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and
God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply,
and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening
and the morning were the fifth day.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and
creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made
the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful,
and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth. (Gen. 1:20–28)
Notice the sequence of events. God created plant life; then the heavenly bodies;
then sea life and fowl; then beasts, cattle, and crawling things; and, finally, man and
woman. Readers routinely assume that the man and woman were Adam and Eve, but
let’s see what the Bible actually says.
Adam and Eve belong to the second Creation story. They first appear together in
the second chapter of Genesis.
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in
the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of
the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the
LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to
till the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face
of the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the
man whom he had formed. (Gen. 2:4–8)